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all, we welcome more than 100 of rob's friends and family, especially his father, phil, his mother, maureen, and his money brothers and sisters. it has been said that courage is not simply one of the virtus but the form of every virtue at the testing point. for rob miller, the testing point came nearly three years ago, deep in a snowy afghan valley. but the courage he displayed that day reflects every virtue that defined his life. rob was wise beyond his years. growing up in wheaten, illinois, outside of chicago, he was the boy in school who penned a poem about american gis in world war ii, men like the soldier rob would become himself, who he said fought day and night, fighting for what they thought was right. rob was born to lead. the high school gymnast who trained so hard, his coach had to kick him out at night so they could close the gym. he was the army recruit who pushed himself to his limits, physically and mentally, to earn the title green beret. he was the special forces soldier who, on his first tour in afghanistan, earned two army commendation medals for his valor. devotion to d
all, we welcome more than 100 of rob's friends and family, especially his father, phil, his mother, maureen, and his money brothers and sisters. it has been said that courage is not simply one of the virtus but the form of every virtue at the testing point. for rob miller, the testing point came nearly three years ago, deep in a snowy afghan valley. but the courage he displayed that day reflects every virtue that defined his life. rob was wise beyond his years. growing up in wheaten, illinois,...
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. >> you think he likes maureen dowd of "the new york times," you think he likes anybody who writes a column about him? >> i think it is beneficial for him to be outside the culture of washington and to castigate the culture of washington. i think it's at least in part genuine expression of how he feels. >> it's interesting we've had so many presidents, nixon had a western white house like he was somehow out there. reagan was on vacation all the time in california. but you know, that idea that you can like deny your role as party leader, i don't know. it seems to me this is going to be self-defeating. >> i think parties are different than they used to be. we're trying to figure out what it means to be a leader of a party. >> you've given me a square story. he's the democratic leader, he's the president but not a democratic leader. >> they would say party leadership is to help these candidates update their campaigns, run grassroots centered campaigns, 21st century sort of machinery rather than to go out and do the rallies where you scream about republicans necessarily. i mean, i think
. >> you think he likes maureen dowd of "the new york times," you think he likes anybody who writes a column about him? >> i think it is beneficial for him to be outside the culture of washington and to castigate the culture of washington. i think it's at least in part genuine expression of how he feels. >> it's interesting we've had so many presidents, nixon had a western white house like he was somehow out there. reagan was on vacation all the time in california....
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but i think the culture of washington as he discussed -- reyou think he likes maureen dowd? >> you think he likes frank rich? do you think he likes anybody who writes a column about him? >> i think it is beneficial for him to be outside the culture of washington and to castigate the culture of washington. i think it's at least in part a genuine expression of how he feels. >> it's interesting we've had so many presidents -- nixon had a western white house. reagan was on vacation all the time in california. but that idea that you can like deny your role as party leader. i mean, i don't know, it seems to me this is going to be self-defeating. i think party are different from what nay used to be. >>> he's the democrating leader. awe they would, not saying this is right. they would say leadership is to help the candidates update their campaigns. run grassroots centered campaigns, 21st century machinery rather than to go out and do the rallies. >> that's why they didn't -- >> i think. >> jeb bush, is he going to run against them next time? >> says he's not, but i hope he's open to
but i think the culture of washington as he discussed -- reyou think he likes maureen dowd? >> you think he likes frank rich? do you think he likes anybody who writes a column about him? >> i think it is beneficial for him to be outside the culture of washington and to castigate the culture of washington. i think it's at least in part a genuine expression of how he feels. >> it's interesting we've had so many presidents -- nixon had a western white house. reagan was on...
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maureen dowd quite an op-ed over the weekend. no love from the left. here is what she writes. charles, this was a pretty eye-grabbing op-ed over the weekend. maureen dowd also said the president was an elitist, he was a situationalist, and talked about the growing war between liberals and the far left. what is your take on this? >> well, i think one really, really smart point she made was to -- you know, this idea we're going to rope everybody under the umbrella of progressive which gallup says nobody knows what that means. but there is no progressive movement. there are factions and they do not agree on all things always, and that is part of the president's problem. you can't really please both at once. you either have -- you have to pick a camp and you have to kind of go with that. they want to go with left light, but left light is not the most vocal part of the left and the most vocal part are the people that he is not necessarily pleasing, and that is his problem. >> charles, you also wrote a fascinating op-ed this weekend where you drew a comparison between president bara
maureen dowd quite an op-ed over the weekend. no love from the left. here is what she writes. charles, this was a pretty eye-grabbing op-ed over the weekend. maureen dowd also said the president was an elitist, he was a situationalist, and talked about the growing war between liberals and the far left. what is your take on this? >> well, i think one really, really smart point she made was to -- you know, this idea we're going to rope everybody under the umbrella of progressive which...
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maureen dowd talks about that. "hail the conquering professor" is the name of her piece. obama wanted to reason to compromise to float in his ivory toury but at long last when push came to shove he shoved and let nancy push. he realized sometimes you can't rise above it. you have to sink down into it. you have to stop being cerebral and get your hands dirty. you can fight fear with power. the chicago poll in the oval has had to learn one of the great american truths. you've got to slap the bully in the face. he's a consensus building worrier, axelrod boasted to charlie rose, the president who's been reading "the rise of theodore roosevelt" has always spoken with a soft voice. now he's wielded the big stick. >> tina brown, we were talking earlier about how the president the past couple of weeks actually rolled up his sleeves, got tough, started punching. >> i think americans do like to see the president sweat a bit. it's like, you know, there's a kind of -- he had so much glory, obama, that it was good to make him sweat. that's how people see it, i think, a little bit. the
maureen dowd talks about that. "hail the conquering professor" is the name of her piece. obama wanted to reason to compromise to float in his ivory toury but at long last when push came to shove he shoved and let nancy push. he realized sometimes you can't rise above it. you have to sink down into it. you have to stop being cerebral and get your hands dirty. you can fight fear with power. the chicago poll in the oval has had to learn one of the great american truths. you've got to...
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maureen dowd wrote about her sister. >> she did, her sister peggy. she writes this, when peggy left barry, despite being a washington native, peggy believed the dazzling young newcomer, obama, could change washington. but she has lost a lot of faith now saying she might vote for mit romney over alabama in 2012. he hasn't saved the economy. now he's admitting he made very limettle congress. you can't for four years blame the person who used to be president. obama tries to compromise too much and doesn't look like a strong leader. i don't watch m anymore. i'm turned off by him. i think he's an elitist. he does what he wants and then he tells tous do other things. >> mike, that's just a shotgun blast of maureen dows -- >> i know peggy, yes, i do. she's on to something. >> she is? >> you hear these complaints from democrats as well as republicans. >> i think she's on to -- i think more and more people are feeling, deservedly or undeservedly, you're trying to tell us how to live, how to do a, b and c. and yet, listen, sounds like a cheap shot. your family
maureen dowd wrote about her sister. >> she did, her sister peggy. she writes this, when peggy left barry, despite being a washington native, peggy believed the dazzling young newcomer, obama, could change washington. but she has lost a lot of faith now saying she might vote for mit romney over alabama in 2012. he hasn't saved the economy. now he's admitting he made very limettle congress. you can't for four years blame the person who used to be president. obama tries to compromise too...
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a devil of a scandal, maureen dowd. shes this about the scandal with the catholic church. the hero of the week for simply telling the truth is ireland's archbishop martin. his diocese is dublin, where four archbishops spent four decades shrugging off abuse cases. there is no shortcut to addressing the past, he said, during holy week mass. this has been a difficult year. we see how damaging failure can be. the response was hopefully inadequate. amen. it was, and we were talking about this at the top of the show, it seems to me redick yously inept, not to sound crass, but from a sheer public relations point of view. >> let's just talk about management. >> all right. >> let's just pretend this was a corporation. when you have people at the top, that are covering for underlings, that did very bad things, it's not much of a stretch to realize that the culture of corporation went all the way to the top. if it didn't go all the way to the top, that person at the top would just wipe everybody out. but, mike barnicle, this went back to the 1950s. this was a part of a subculture in
a devil of a scandal, maureen dowd. shes this about the scandal with the catholic church. the hero of the week for simply telling the truth is ireland's archbishop martin. his diocese is dublin, where four archbishops spent four decades shrugging off abuse cases. there is no shortcut to addressing the past, he said, during holy week mass. this has been a difficult year. we see how damaging failure can be. the response was hopefully inadequate. amen. it was, and we were talking about this at the...
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maureen dowd, we read the column yesterday. maureen dowd, norah, said how fascinating that george w. bush showed mere leadership in this area than a progressive president and cited chris christie and michael bloomberg and said basically get on board. >> george w. bush was the first president to use the word mosque in an inaugural address. >> wow. >> i mean, significance outreach to muslim americans and so why a number americans where ed gillespie or david winston who is a poll sister saying republicans watch where you go on this discussion about a mosque, of painting all muslims as extremists. >> as a country, rick, let's talk about this. as a country, this sort of hatred was visited possible -- upon the irish, the germans, jews. you can go through it. don't we know how this story ends? don't we know that muslims are like -- america is this huge -- it is a melting pot. >> right. >> we absorb every group on the planet and they become americans. >> no, look. our country is based on religious tolerance and religious acceptance. th
maureen dowd, we read the column yesterday. maureen dowd, norah, said how fascinating that george w. bush showed mere leadership in this area than a progressive president and cited chris christie and michael bloomberg and said basically get on board. >> george w. bush was the first president to use the word mosque in an inaugural address. >> wow. >> i mean, significance outreach to muslim americans and so why a number americans where ed gillespie or david winston who is a poll...
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. >> "new york times," maureen dowd. i'm going to read half of this. usurper in chief. with the last three presidents there's been an attempt to go beyond presidency to delegitization, to paint them as not just wrong, but sharl tans with no right to the job. >> mike barnicle, i used to be, it's always tough. for the last three presidents, it's something that we've said all the time, clinton, bush, obama, it's not enough to oppose them, you have to delegitimize them from day one. that has been the political blood support that has unfortunately corrupted our politics. >> all of our politics, not just with presidents, joe. i would submit that now for the vast majority of people who run for office or who defend their office once in office, it's not enough to defeat your opponent, you have to demonize your opponent at the same time. it's very ugly, very ugly. >> one more. i hope we get to my third. but here we go -- >> stay focus sgld focus, focus. sorry. this is chris van hole land, he's written in "the washington post." first, fix the estate tax give away. house democrats
. >> "new york times," maureen dowd. i'm going to read half of this. usurper in chief. with the last three presidents there's been an attempt to go beyond presidency to delegitization, to paint them as not just wrong, but sharl tans with no right to the job. >> mike barnicle, i used to be, it's always tough. for the last three presidents, it's something that we've said all the time, clinton, bush, obama, it's not enough to oppose them, you have to delegitimize them from...
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. >> maureen dowd saying he understood we are not at war with islam. >> my gut is that president obama, if he asks the bushes to do something that they would seriously consider it. >> i think they would as well. really, what are you going to do, chuck, if you're a republican and george w. bush walks through the entrance of a mosque with barack obama, accuse bushy of being a muslim? what are you going to do? >> i just -- i'm trying to think here how sad and depressing that we're going through what we're going through right now and we have a president who is paralyzed because of his background. paralyzed politically. >> well, i mean, why is it his fault i guess would be my question. >> i'm not saying it's his fault. >> i understand that. >> he is the president of the united states. it's not his fault. but if his advisers aren't letting him step into the fray and be a leader because of his middle name or because -- >> wait a minute. he did. he did. and look. you look at this short term. he did step into it. he did say something. yes, the backtrack is probably the biggest, you know, if you
. >> maureen dowd saying he understood we are not at war with islam. >> my gut is that president obama, if he asks the bushes to do something that they would seriously consider it. >> i think they would as well. really, what are you going to do, chuck, if you're a republican and george w. bush walks through the entrance of a mosque with barack obama, accuse bushy of being a muslim? what are you going to do? >> i just -- i'm trying to think here how sad and depressing...
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>> he is quoted in "the new york times" in maureen dowd's column about sarah palin, she should not run and she won't run. that's jimmy carter's belief. that's also my belief. >> willie, is she going to run? >> yeah. i think she can't resist. he also got buchanan to say something nice about jimmy carter. >> that was the report. >> i bring people together. i'm coming out of this ahmadinejad breakfast with mika and it occurs to us after getting the transcript e-mailed to us that ahmadinejad was saying nicer things about israel than you were saying about jimmy carter. two hours after we're teaching about keeping calm that even pat buchanan felt sorry for jimmy carter and had to defend him. you're like karzai. you're on your meds, you're off your meds. >> i love you. i hate you. >> boy, that sounds familiar. norah o'donnell, you have done extensive reporting on sarah palin. it certainly looked like a political campaign ad to all of us. what about you? >> i think she'll run. i don't know that she can win, but i think what's clear in this is that if she does run, she will run as part of the t
>> he is quoted in "the new york times" in maureen dowd's column about sarah palin, she should not run and she won't run. that's jimmy carter's belief. that's also my belief. >> willie, is she going to run? >> yeah. i think she can't resist. he also got buchanan to say something nice about jimmy carter. >> that was the report. >> i bring people together. i'm coming out of this ahmadinejad breakfast with mika and it occurs to us after getting the...